ORIGINAL: bluebird2
Unit…………88-92(counties)…..98-02(counties)……….03-07(WMU)……………2008(WMU)
2G……………5.48.………………..4.66.… ………………..2.35.……………………. 2.21
3A……………6.52.………………..6.08.… ………………..6.07.……………………. 4.97
3C……………6.22.………………..6.11.… ………………..5.49.……………………. 3.38
4D……………5.25.………………..4.90.… ………………..4.03.……………………. 3.39
Now let’s compare the same data for the units that have had unlimited antler less harvests where hunters could get as many license as they wanted and harvest as many antler less deer as they wanted over the past twenty years.
Unit…………88-92(counties)…..98-02(counties)……….03-07(WMU)……………2008(WMU)
2B……………4.98.………………..8.39.… ………………..10.70.…………………..1 1.23
5C……………3.69.………………..5.84.… …………………7.94.…………………… 9.31
5D……………2.69.………………..5.30.… …………………5.27.…………………… 5.39
When looking at this data remember that the harvests are by square miles of land mass, including the city streets and buildings. The top units have very little developed area while the bottom three units include the cities of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
Now after seeing the deer harvest facts, one group of four WMU where deer harvests have been reduced with lower allocations verse another group of three units (the second ones) where they have had unlimited harvests, which area obviously has the management style that results in increasing deer numbers?
Thank you once again for shoving every one what a disaster the current seer management plan really is. In you units where the plan was successful in reducing the herd as intended (2G-4D , buck harvests steadily decreased since bonus tags were implemented in 1988. But in 2B , 5C and 5D where the plan failed to reduce the herd buck harvests continued to increase and in the case of 5B and 5C more than doubled despite declining deer habitat due to development.
I couldn't have done a better job of blowing your theory to bits , than you did yourself . Nice work once again!!
I must be slipping since I almost forgot to add the icing on the cake that makes RSB's dessert even more delightful. When the PGC switched to WMUs they told us that the goal for 2B was 10DPSM, 5C was 6 DPSM and they didn't even set a goal for 5D since they said there was o suitable deer habitat in 5D. Could it be that the deer are telling the PGC biologists that really don't know squat about the CC of the habitat.
Classic Bluebird FLIM FLAM
You post PART of RSB's information and attempt to talk about the buck harvest using his data. Lets look at the immediate preceding paragraph that you snipped off here........(underlining and red ink edited in by me)
The pre WMU harvest history is based on the harvests of counties that made up the WMU of today and compared to the harvest of those WMUs during more recent years since 2003. Since antler restrictions occurred during this historic period only antler less deer harvests are being used in this comparison.
RSB makes a point about doe harvests and you do the old switcheroo to bucks without providing any supporting data. Here we go again........